UNIVERSE
ASTEROIDS
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Lots of dodging and avoiding collision like in Star Wars.
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Very few asteroids, possibly wouldn’t see one at all.
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There would be a few asteroids to avoid, but not as many as they show in the movies, probably you would only see about ten at a time.
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Thousands of tiny particles, closer to the size of pebbles and boulders, but no large, house sized rocks.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. Most of this ancient space rubble can be found orbiting our Sun between Mars and Jupiter within the main asteroid belt.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jupiter’s gravity is so strong, that it makes asteroid orbits within the Kirkwood gaps unstable. It’s these gaps that prevented a single planetary body from forming in that region. So, because of Jupiter, asteroids formed into families of debris, rather than a single planetary body.
Detailed explanation-3: -Over 200 asteroids are known to be larger than 100 km, and a survey in the infrared wavelengths has shown that the asteroid belt has between 700, 000 and 1.7 million asteroids with a diameter of 1 km or more. The number of asteroids in the main belt steadily increases with decreasing size.
Detailed explanation-4: -The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter contains millions of asteroids, but a space probe has never had to worry about hitting into one on its way to the outer planets. The reason for this is because space is so big and so empty when it comes to macroscopic objects such as planets and asteroids.
Detailed explanation-5: -First of all, there’s not enough total mass in the belt to form a planet. Second, the belt is too close to Jupiter. We haven’t counted every tiny asteroid by a long shot, but we can estimate the mass of the belt from the asteroids we see and by monitoring the orbits of both Mars and Earth.